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The Life Assistance Agency

The Life Assistance Agency
  • Author(s): Thomas Hocknell
  • Location(s): Prague, Europe, Krakow, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Various

Do you want to live forever? is THE question facing anyone pursuing immortality. But what happens when eternal life is disappointing, and everyone around you keeps dying? Ben Ferguson-Cripps, a struggling writer with a surname that gets more attention...

A Kingdom of Souls

A Kingdom of Souls
  • Author(s): Daniela Hodrova
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

TRANSLATED BY VERONIQUE FIRKUSNY & ELENA SOKOL Daniela Hodrova shares her unique perception of Prague, through playful poetic prose, and by imaginatively blending historical and cultural motifs with autobiographical moments. A Kingdom of Souls is the first volume of...

A Second Death

A Second Death
  • Author(s): Graham Brack
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

When the body of a young girl washes up on the banks of the River Vltava, the Czech police are troubled. Brutally murdered and with evidence of sexual abuse, it is not the sort of crime they are used...

Alchemy

Alchemy
  • Author(s): S J Parris
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1580s

Prague, 1588. A COURT IN TURMOIL The court of the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II, is a haven for scientists, astrologers and alchemists. The dream – to discover the philosopher’s stone and attain immortality. But now there are rumours...

Blood, White and Blue

Blood, White and Blue
  • Author(s): James Silvester
  • Location(s): Prague, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Love, deception and murder dominate as thriller writer James Silvester delivers the first in the Lucie Musilova series. Britain is a hotbed of racial tension and economic uncertainty. Only Sir Geoffrey Hartnell, an ageing but hugely respected MP, can...

Death On Duty

Death On Duty
  • Author(s): Graham Brack
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Nothing is ever straightforward when Lieutenant Slonský is on the case… The Bosnian government has sent an alert out to the criminal division in Prague that some of their ‘most wanted’ men may have escaped into the Czech Republic....

Field of Death

Field of Death
  • Author(s): Graham Brack
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Josef Slonský is preparing to take up his promotion as Captain when a spanner is thrown in the works. He has to pass a medical, and a lifetime’s supply of beer and sausage is not helping his chances of...

From Venice with Love

From Venice with Love
  • Author(s): Rosanna Ley
  • Location(s): Venice, Dorset, Lisbon, Prague
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The bestselling author of The Lemon Tree Hotel returns with an enchanting new holiday read about family bonds and following your heart, wherever it might take you… With her marriage in danger of falling apart, Joanna returns home to...

Hammer To Fall

Hammer To Fall
  • Author(s): John Lawton
  • Location(s): Prague, Berlin, Dublin, Finland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1966-68

It’s London, the swinging sixties, and by rights MI6 spy Joe Wilderness should be having as good a time as James Bond. But alas, in the wake of an embarrassing disaster for MI6, Wilderness has been posted to remote...

Hunting the Hangman

Hunting the Hangman
  • Author(s): Howard Linskey
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

TWO MEN… ONE MISSION… TO KILL THE MAN WITH THE IRON HEART Bestselling author Howard Linskey’s fifteen year fascination with the assassination attempt on Reinhard Heydrich, the architect of the holocaust, has produced a meticulously researched, historically accurate thriller...

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